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I've been through many forums over the last 25 or so years. It's very sad when the day comes when it's finally shut down I was a member of a community called "Chips' Fun House." It's a forum mainly for a community built around this game from 2000 called "Team Fortress Classic" and also Counter Strike. It finally shut down recently. It's been declining in activity for many, many years now, but it's still sad to see it gone for good. There is absolutely no way to contact the other posters on there. Other forums that I was a part of was -KEEGS, Team Fun, Kill Machine also TFC server communities. -SysOpt is practically dead.. it used to be my main go-to for PC tech support. -Grand Am Owners Club is dying -Planet Fortress -RagnaInfo - a Ragnarok Online community
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Yeah it's a loving bummer. I remember when there were hundreds of active boards on gamefaqs back in the day
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Feb 11, 2025 21:57
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Forums as a whole are going the way of the Dodo and it's lame. "Dead and gay" jokes aside, SA surprises me by keeping as relevant as it has. I hope we have plenty of time left with this place.
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i used to post on the bungie.net forums during the late halo days, they were cute and i liked the off topic forum best called The Flood. and hey Reach discussions and arguments got loving intense, could put some of these D&D smackdowns to shame. bloom...
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Feb 11, 2025 22:00
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gently caress do people still play TFC?
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Feb 11, 2025 22:00
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I was active on a few gaming related forums some 25 years ago. They were only around for a few years before going inactive, probably because all of us posting there were in our late teens/early 20s and sort of drifted on with our lives. I occasionally think of the other guys and wonder what became of them and how they are doing today.
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Feb 11, 2025 22:05
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Twentyish years ago I was part of a forum that revolved around developing custom mods for the NHL PC games when EA was still making those. This was like, 1 of 2 forums of any significant size for this hobby. Well one day, the site owner posted some screed about how God talked to him and told him he needed to close the website. It was gone like 3 days later. 5 years of not just posts but all the development, the mod files, everything, gone.
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Feb 11, 2025 22:08
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:gently caress do people still play TFC? if anyone does ill hop on. in college 15 years ago servers were like 80% bots
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Feb 11, 2025 22:11
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shyduck posted:Twentyish years ago I was part of a forum that revolved around developing custom mods for the NHL PC games when EA was still making those. This was like, 1 of 2 forums of any significant size for this hobby. drat lol admins flaming out seems to be a stable - one of my forums flamed out after the admin's second in command posted pictures of his dick on the frontpage
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Feb 11, 2025 22:12
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Pcmaker posted:this game from 2000 called "Team Fortress Classic" How do you do, fellow goons?
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Feb 11, 2025 22:12
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:gently caress do people still play TFC? We tried to keep it going for as long as possible. We had TFC servers we kept paying for 10 years after the last time it had active players on it
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Feb 11, 2025 22:14
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This place is well on its way. When historians look back they will pinpoint pencilhands' ban as the point of no return.
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Feb 11, 2025 22:18
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it’s not sad at all op, you witness your posting enemies fall one by one until only you remain victorious
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AcidCat posted:This place is well on its way. When historians look back they will pinpoint pencilhands' ban as the point of no return. College students immediately jotting down notes when the professor displays the graph labelled "Number of New GBS Threads Created"
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Feb 11, 2025 22:22
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It's much worse when a person dies. Especially one with a family. Some kids, a dog - all those lives changed irrevocably.
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Feb 11, 2025 22:26
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RIP Sega Blast City forums
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Bad Purchase posted:it’s not sad at all op, you witness your posting enemies fall one by one until only you remain victorious  https://i.makeagif.com/media/2-12-2015/XPYhTv.mp4
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I used to post on Amazon's various forums because I could get away with it at work, since it was an e-commerce site that used Amazon as a 3rd-party seller and I had an excuse to be there. Lots of dumb stuff on the Video Game Forum and the Fun Forum. There was some big drama with some lady who thought she was a witch who posted with absurd use of capital letters and plenty of ~*~ style symbols littering her posts and using alts to claim she was being harassed or something. She went by Bitters or Bittersweet, I think. Some people took posting on Amazon as life-or-death importance. Wish I could still see some of those posts but Amazon nuked all of it. I get why they did though. I also remember people constantly angry on the Sookie Stackhouse board and I could never understand why they were so mad.
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Feb 11, 2025 22:39
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Is that you PH
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The first forum I ever remember using was PK-HQ.com or the player killers headquarters.
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Feb 11, 2025 22:41
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Dslreports shut down this month and I was bummed, despite moving to SA like 15 years ago now.
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Feb 11, 2025 22:47
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Smugworth posted:Is that you PH wondering this as well...
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Pcmaker posted:-RagnaInfo - a Ragnarok Online community I have no poo poo not thought of that for 20 years. Holy gently caress I'm old.
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bradzilla posted:wondering this as well... Ditto
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:I have no poo poo not thought of that for 20 years. Holy gently caress I'm old. I got both my ravens on the case....
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Feb 11, 2025 22:59
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I was impressed how active the forums for this GBA Tactics Ogre fansite were back in the day. Good times 
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big shout out to drunkgamers.com!
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Abandonware sites and forums disappearing or becoming dead asf sucks because the "conservation" sites like GOG or platforms like Steam do is a joke. They hardly ever host anything truly in risk of being lost or things that are actually unknown, and asking money for it is beyond pathetic and goes against the purposes of conservation, while additionally ripping off the work of people who gently caress with libraries or painstaking DOSBox setups to get them working with no credit, most of that was done by abandonware enthusiasts; much of it years ago. Still a ton of multimedia stuff, ephemera, educational software, freeware, and niche games from less represented countries that need to be copied and archived, but all of that is passed over in service of poo poo that is recognizable or a sole focus on just videogames. Social media platforms are absolute dogshit for any actual community, and they render organization in any respect absolute hell because of the lack of chronological structure. Discord is a poor substitute as well, and if you open them to the public, moderation is a significantly greater undertaking than in the context of a forum, so they inevitably turn into cesspools, it's no mistake that most Discord servers dissolve after a short amount of time versus the forums that thrived for twenty years before winding down. For hobbyists and people trying to do organized stuff like archival or conservation efforts, it's far harder to set up a place that attracts competent collaborators through modern channels. Compound that with the fact that most modern channels are constantly emphasizing algorithmic engagement, and you end up with an ecosystem where any community you make seems to inevitably fill up with trash and people who react and respond to everything so that they can react and respond instead of contributing anything worthwhile. So you end up sifting through garbage and trying to navigate random assholes leaking into everything. It was far easier to manage that poo poo on a forum, especially when the community itself held the means to moderate and not Facebook or Twitter which won't eject absolute fuckwads. You can make things private, but then growing your community organically is near impossible. The forum based mode of conversation was just healthier. Removing chronological organization is imo one of the worst parts of the modern Internet, it's absolutely insane that some dumbass zero value post will sift through the top of responses because a bunch of other dumbasses gave it a bunch of likes. Every single conversation demands rolling through a hosed up tree of small threads that branch off, it makes zero loving sense and no wonder it's made people stupid as gently caress online since most of them are patently incapable of communicating outside of that algorithmic context.
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You best start believin in ghost forums, yer in one 
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Funky See Funky Do posted:It's much worse when a person dies. Especially one with a family. Some kids, a dog - all those lives changed irrevocably. What about a really bad person vs. a really good forum?
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I remember terra arcanum, the forum for the game arcanum. It was largely just a very small collection of assholes who constantly alienated people signing up to the site by being rude to them for no real reason. I think it properly shut down ages ago but that place was a ghost town for much of its existence from being comprised of needlessly cliquey jerks.
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Abandonware sites and forums disappearing or becoming dead asf sucks because the "conservation" sites like GOG or platforms like Steam do is a joke. They hardly ever host anything truly in risk of being lost or things that are actually unknown, and asking money for it is beyond pathetic and goes against the purposes of conservation, while additionally ripping off the work of people who gently caress with libraries or painstaking DOSBox setups to get them working with no credit, most of that was done by abandonware enthusiasts; much of it years ago. Shut up nerd
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Planet Namek Message Board and a weird ezboard offshoot called Circlejerk’s Board were basically my internet home in the early 2000s. It’s also where I learned being a mod is not worth it lol.
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Mr.Acula posted:You best start believin in ghost forums, yer in one Geordi no: YOSPOS? Geordi yes: Ghost Post!
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What types of PCs to you make?
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The death of the x-entertainment forums (and entire site at this point) was a sad day, despite trying to move to an off-site forum for a while. Nothing lasts forever~
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Abandonware sites and forums disappearing or becoming dead asf sucks because the "conservation" sites like GOG or platforms like Steam do is a joke. They hardly ever host anything truly in risk of being lost or things that are actually unknown, and asking money for it is beyond pathetic and goes against the purposes of conservation, while additionally ripping off the work of people who gently caress with libraries or painstaking DOSBox setups to get them working with no credit, most of that was done by abandonware enthusiasts; much of it years ago. Reading this really makes me think about just how bad the internet has gotten in the last ten years, as a whole. I especially hate the removal of chronological organization. I also hate the Like/Dislike system impacting post "value." It's the kind of thing that's good in theory, but in practice, it has serious faults.
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Also RIP the FirePro dot net forums. Posting and copying CAW sheets for the Saturn and then DC FirePro Wrestling games.
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As long as the MOPAR webring is still going strong then the Internet is just fine
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I used to post with a bunch of people on the Chrono Cross social board on GameFAQs and we posted so much that we made our own off site message board and started posting there. They just started doing a bunch of RP stuff and I drifted away but I remember we were pretty tight for a second there. I was one of the OGs and since I never wanted to RP my character was none the less inserted into a bunch of RP stories I never read. Weird times. We talked over ICQ. I hope most of them are still alive. I never even liked Chrono Cross.
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